itchingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Frank Langella makes Flamineo a smilingly, itchingly venomous blood brother to lago, and Carrie Nye and Eric Berry are absorbingly effective as the duke's second wife and a corrupt cardinal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The greasy gathering that assembled, itchingly expectant for the first performance, was disconsolate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rain splashed up from pools on the worn brick walks and dripped from trees and whipped about buildings, soaking the legs and leaving them itchingly wet and the feet sloshily uncomfortable.
From Project Gutenberg
Nothing about him encouraged any hope that he had received his come-upance; on the contrary, the yearners for that stroke of justice must yearn even more itchingly: the gilded youth's manner had become polite, but his politeness was of a kind which democratic people found hard to bear.
From Project Gutenberg
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